Basic Analyzing Techniques

Start out by opening one of the existing analyses directly from the Documents tab. Open the Shared / Inventory / Inventory Cash-binding analysis.

This analysis displays Cost for a small clothes-producing company, Casual Clothing, which is the virtual company upon which all of TARGIT’s demo data has been built.

The analysis is opened in the part of the client called the work area. If we want to free up even more space for working with this analysis we may hide some of the other elements of the client.

You can determine which parts of the client that must be visible by turning them on and off in the VIEW ribbon.

You will also be able to find buttons directly in the interface for hiding/showing these elements. Buttons for hiding Smartpad, Navigation Bar and Ribbon has been highlighted here:

If we choose to hide the Smartpad, the Navigation Bar and as the last thing, the Ribbon, we will get a client like this:

This analysis is created from four objects; each has been defined from the available source data, measures and dimensions.

The donut chart shows the Cost measure together with the Product hierarchy dimension.

The horizontal bar chart shows the Cost measure together with a Warehouse Location dimension.

The bar chart shows Cost together with a Time hierarchy dimension.

The cross table shows Quantity with the Product dimension.

This analysis has been saved with the Criteria Bar hidden. To show it, simply click the criteria bar icon in the home ribbon. The criteria bar makes it easier for the end-user to select criteria (filters) for this analysis.